When I first heard about barefoot running I just thought it was a silly craze that was likely to give you an injury and cost some dollar in buying strange looking five finger gloves for your feet. So what made me investigate it more? I started to think about it's possible ...
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First Steps into Barefoot Running
7th May 2012
Running a Marathon With No Training
6th May 2012A few weekends ago I ran the London Marathon, having not run further than a couple of miles a couple of times in the previous year. The evening before this drastic 'whim' I searched the internet for advice on whether or not this was possible and more importantly whether it ...
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Check out the Bling!
29th Apr 2012When I walked into work on Monday morning saying to my colleague 'check out the bling', as I pulled my marathon medal out of my jacket, I was almost as surprised as he was when he asked if I ran the London Marathon and I responded with the word 'yes'. I ...
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Born To Run
7th Apr 2012I was recommended this book by a woman training for an iron-man who I was sat next to at a free curry night (for marshals that had helped out with allabouttriathlon races). She said it was a great book that had really inspired her. Not wanting to fall into the trap of being disappointed by ...
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Odds and Sods
31st Mar 2012Five weeks ago I started a new job! Yay! And what is great about this job is that three of the guys sitting near me in the office go for a lunchtime run twice a week and I have started a great off-road commute to work. Here's a little taste of ...
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UK Gear PT-1000 trainer review
17th Mar 2012The last few weeks I have been trying out some running shoes that claim to be built to survive 1,000 miles! Whilst I did consider that I could set up a profile on my Garmin just for using when I run wearing these to test this claim, it would have been at ...
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Jabra Sport Headphones Review
10th Mar 2012The benefits of listening to music whilst exercising have been well established, and when putting in long runs for marathon training can be essential for sanity. A Sunday long run of three or four hours is definitely helped by breaking it up with a song, podcast or radio programme. So far ...
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Reasons To Marshal
29th Sep 2011Being unable to run for the last few months I've taken the opportunity to marshal at a few running events. I was slightly concerned that watching people running would almost be as painful as my injury, invoking pangs of jealousy at seeing people doing what I wanted to be doing! But ...
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Referred (..to a physio and referred pain)
27th Sep 2011Unfortunately staying away from running hasn't helped with my hip at all, in fact if anything, over the three months since I saw a physio it has got worse. It got so bad I was awake most nights in pain, so last week I saw my GP about it, who ...
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